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Is this right?

How do I show ownership by the group of three of us?

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    What is it you’re trying to say? – Jim Feb 10 '16 at 01:57
  • I'm showing someone a poster which myself and classmates made for the lesson last monday – user159648 Feb 10 '16 at 01:58
  • The OP appears to be asking how to indicate three-way ownership in a single sentence, and asking if "This is my, Tom and Alex's poster [...]" is gramatically correct. –  Feb 10 '16 at 02:41

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This is the poster which Tom, Alex, and I made for last Monday's lesson.

Note that "polite" style is to place yourself last in a list such as is used above.

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The correct construction would be, "This is my, Tom's, and Alex's poster, which we made for last Monday's lesson." However, there are more effective ways to write it.

This poster, which we made for last Monday's lesson, is Tom's, Alex's and mine.

This poster was made for last Monday's lesson by Tom, Alex, and me.

Tom, Alex and I made this poster for last Monday's lesson.

However, as the answers to this question suggest, you could also write, informally, "This is Tom, Alex and I's poster." Note that while this may be accepted in speech, it looks and reads very strangely.

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This is the poster Tom, Alex and I made for last Monday's lesson.

This is our poster. Tom, Alex and I made it for last Monday's lesson.

This is our (Tom, Alex, and myself) poster which we made for last Monday's lesson.

While the example sentence might fill out a sentence diagram without errors, it sounds stilted to my ear.

If the question is simply about how could you communicate ownership by 3 people, I offer the above suggestions.

If the question is really about the technical correctness of the sentence in the title, post a comment and Ill delete this answer.

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